Fellows in Residence

Dance

Nichole Canuso

Choreographer – United States

Nichole Canuso’s dedication to dance manifests as performances, installations, films and intimate dialogues. Her projects often use technology to bring performers and audiences together in tender exchanges. Her work has been awarded fellowships (Pew fellow 2017; New York Stage & Film fellow 2021) and presented nationally (New York Live Arts, American Repertory Theater, Los Angeles Performance Practice) and internationally (Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic).

While in residence Nichole will be developing Lunar Retreat, a multi-sensory, interactive performance installation. Named after the slow, rhythmic inevitability of the growing distance between the earth and the moon, Lunar Retreat explores our individual and communal experiences of the cycles of caretaking, loss and transformation. Choreographic prompts on headphones will guide participants into a labyrinthine performance experience in which they can explore and reflect both alone and together.

Film/Video

Tamar Baruch

Filmmaker – Israel

Tamar Baruch is a filmmaker born in 1987 in Haifa, Israel. Drawing on her experience as a first-generation immigrant of Tunisian and Iranian descent, she directs her films towards critical human-rights issues, with a particular focus on refugee narratives. Baruch received an M.A. in Documentary Film from NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she was a Fulbright fellow, and a B.F.A. in Film from Tel-Aviv University's Steve Tisch School of Film and York University's Film Department.

Tamar Baruch will be working on a new feature-length film set in Senegal. The story centers on a love affair between a French activist and a Senegalese fisherman. The couple migrates to France in hopes of starting a life, but once in France, they struggle to belong. Through this film, Baruch aims to examine the enduring effects of colonialism on Senegalese and French societies, exploring the dissonance and struggle faced by characters caught between different cultural, political, and social worlds.

Humanities Scholarship

Milena Anfosso

(Classics) – Author and Scholar – United States/Italy

Milena Anfosso (PhD, Sorbonne University) has held research appointments at Harvard University and UCLA. Multilingual herself, she has published and lectured on multilingualism in Antiquity, focusing on linguistic interactions among different populations in Anatolia between the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE, with a particular interest in ancient curses and black magic. Additionally, Milena has worked on Calabrian dialectology and folklore. Based in Los Angeles, she has served as a linguistic consultant in the entertainment industry and is currently co-authoring a YA fantasy novel.

At Bogliasco, Milena will work on her monograph exploring Timotheus of Miletus’s language in the Persians (late 5th-century BCE), a complex piece of Greek literature that narrates the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE) from the Persians’ perspective. Using her extensive knowledge of Ancient Greek, Phrygian, Lydian, and Old Persian, Milena explains Timotheus’s unusual linguistic choices in terms of sociolinguistic mimesis. She also discusses the strategies that he used to convey the 'otherness' of his characters in comparison with other ancient authors and in the frame of so-called 'New Music.'

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Architecture

Robert Hutchinson

Architect, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Washington – United States

Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison is Principal of the Seattle-based Robert Hutchison Architecture, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the recipient of the 2017 Rome Prize, two Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowships, the 2009 Emerging Voices, and residencies at MacDowell and Loghaven.

At Bogliasco, Robert will be completing the final draft of his publication Memory Landscapes, which will be published by Zurich-based Park Books. The project explores the power of collective memory in designing for new futures following natural disaster. Focusing on eastern coastal Japan, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the book will combine his own photographs and architectural proposals with interviews and contributions from Japanese architects and artists.

Dance

Annie Wang

Choreographer and Dancer – United States

Annie MingHao Wang (she/they) is a choreographer/dancer based in New York. Held Artist-In-Residencies at Movement Research, Topaz Arts, Marble House Project, Leimay, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Awarded grants by LMCC and Brooklyn Arts Council, their work has been presented by Pioneers Go East, Movement Research, Leimay, Five Myles, and the Exponential Festival. Annie also dances for Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Sugar Vendil, and Marie Lloyd Paspé.

In their newest work, Wang is building both dance phrases and textile objects in response to their research into Chinese textile histories and iconic garments like quilted jackets and qipao. The physical actions are inspired from the motions, sensations, and patterning logic of textile work. The objects will lead me into the final visual design while also driving choreographic inspiration. I’m excited for the space and time at Bogliasco to resonate with dance and objects and envision them as a whole piece.

Film/Video

Mireya Martinez

Filmmaker, Writer, and Producer — Mexico/United States

Mireya Martinez is a Mexican-American filmmaker, writer, and producer. Her sole pursuit is to tell and support stories that make palpable the human experience in all of its tatteredness, fragility, magnitude, and joy. A MacDowell and Sundance Institute Fellow, her work has screened at festivals worldwide including San Sebastian, Sundance, True/False, New Directors/New Films and IFFR, amongst others. She holds an MFA in Film Direction from the California Institute of the Arts.

At Bogliasco, Martinez and collaborator Alisha Tejpal will continue to write their first feature length screenplay, For the Eyes Are Blind to the Stairwells (working title). Centering its exploration on themes of micro-violence and generational collective trauma, this film offers a glimpse into the complex social fabric of urban India. In an affluent Mumbai apartment complex , the lives of residents and staff intertwine as hidden desires, social tensions, and a mysterious death unravel their carefully maintained facades.